<p>and they're useful to you... how, exactly? not to say that it's not lopsided here because surely it is, but picking a humanities concentration involves studying some of those subjects as well and aside from the relatively few humanities majors, everyone (I think) has to concentrate in SOMETHING in humanities, so it's not like we're completely clueless.</p>
<p>Sometimes it's really nice having other people around you with similar interests. A girl I know at BC is one of 2 female physics majors in her class of some 2 or 3 thousand. And she can't even find the other girl. She was really excited to meet (talk to) me just because I liked physics. Like, really excited. Tell her about the people around her studying history, psychology and government and a "broader undergrad experience".</p>
<p>why do you want to go to Harvard anyway? you applied MIT for EA! That's right, you know MIT is the best best best best place for you!!!! COME TO MIT!!!!!!!</p>
<p>I like telling the following story: there was once a math star who majored in math at Harvard undergrad and then studied math in graduate school at MIT. He used to have a Web page on which he said that going to those schools in that order is the ideal way to study math. Then he became an instructor at Stanford and removed the statement from his Web page. :p</p>
<p>Harvard Math department is much much stronger than MIT math. </p>
<p>Harvard math team place 1st on Putnam Math competition more than any other school in US. ( even though MIT math is 6 times bigger than Harvard math)</p>
<p>First place finishes (as of 2005 competition) Team
25 Harvard
9 Caltech
5 MIT </p>
<p>Do you consider yourself smarter than a math professor at MIT or Harvard? If yes, then choose based on which you prefer, if no then choose based on which you prefer.</p>
<p>Seriously, past the top 25 schools the difference in education is immesurable and it comes down to feel and finaid</p>
<p>Whenever I ask people in the industry for CS / profs I've worked with, I usually get a list similar to :</p>
<p>MIT/Stanford/Berkley/CMU/etc but not Harvard usually... I'm very surprised that people would consider Harvard's CS dept at the same level as MIT's. But of course, that's just from what I've heard...</p>
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Harvard math team place 1st on Putnam Math competition more than any other school in US. ( even though MIT math is 6 times bigger than Harvard math)</p>
<p>First place finishes (as of 2005 competition) Team
25 Harvard
9 Caltech
5 MIT
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<p>By using the same logic, since Harvard graduates have won only 1 Wolf Prize in Mathematics (which is the true Nobel-equivalent in math), and Moscow State University has had at least 5, then that means that Moscow State must be much much much better than Harvard at math. Heck, I see that grads of UChicago have won far more Wolf Prizes in Math than have Harvard grads. So I guess that means that UChicago is much much better than Harvard at math.</p>
<p>Hey, don't blame me. I'm only following the 'impeccable' logic of mdx49.</p>
<p>Fear not, mdx49. Wherever you post, I will make sure to follow you so that people will know that Harvard is worse than UChicago and much worse than Moscow State at math.</p>
<p>Harvard math team place 1st on Putnam Math competition more than any other school in US. ( even though MIT math is 6 times bigger than Harvard math)</p>
<p>First place finishes (as of 2005 competition) Team
25 Harvard
9 Caltech
5 MIT </p>
<p>I just can't understand why MIT math team are doing much worse than Harvard team, even though ther are MIT math department is much bigger..</p>
<p>About 20 people get math degree from Harvard and about 120 people get Math degree MIT..</p>
<p>If MIT math is as good as Harvard math, why MIT math team consistently do worse than Harvard team ?</p>
<p>Harvard math students really don't think MIT is at the same level at all...</p>